Mark Osegueda claimed in a 2003 interview that the 8th song of the album "The Ultra-Violence"; "I.P.F.S." stood for "Intense Puke Feeling Syndrome," but it is unclear if this was meant to be taken seriously.

Except for Ted Aguilar, all Death Angel's members (from the original line-up) are related by blood. Ted Aguilar is known as "the world's smallest Samoan".

Andy Galeon was ten or eleven years old when he joined the band in 1982.